Step-by-step Guide To Playing The Electric Bass Guitar

May 20, 2010 - PRLog -- Familiar scenes like, the lead singer is hot! The lead guitarist rocks! The drummer is awesome! But no mention of the bassist, the worst is that we don't even know what his name is.

Xaviera Arata Editor of the  Learn To Play The Guitar  website -- http://www.LearnToPlayTheGuitar.tv -- pointed out;

“…People would be like whose that guy with the four string guitar again? Or yeah they're, good but I can't remember the guy on bass. Those kinds of things makes people a little weary about trying learn how to play the electric bass guitar…” Added Xaviera Arata

Fortunately, for us no matter how bad we under appreciate bass players there are still quite a lot of people wanting to learn the unrecognized instrument. Even the icons of heavy metal, Metallica, wouldn't start playing gigs until they found a replacement for Jason Newsted (Robert Trujillo joined the band in 2003 after auditioning, along with him bass players like Pepper Keenan, Jeordie White, Scott Reeder, Eric Avery, Danny Lohner, and Chris Wyse also joined the auditions) This is a testament to the importance of a bassist to a band.

Now moving on to the topic, if you haven't played the bass all your life it's not too late for you. Here are some easy steps to learn the bass guitar without banging your head against the wall. The results may vary depending on your natural skill and how much practice you put into playing the bass. Don't expect to be the next superstar bassist without practice. Professional bass players put years into practicing before they could be where they are now.

- start with the first finger, or forefinger. Find a relaxed position to rest the thumb on top of the strings so that the hand is anchored. The forefinger or any other finger that is used for plucking ought to get to all the strings at ease without the thumb stirring.

- use the second finger, otherwise known as the middle finger, next. drag the string, opening with the fleshy part of the finger. Then rapidly pull on the string, and permit it to scuff your fingertip and over the fingernail.

- pluck by means of your thumb. In this case, secure your hand beneath the strings with a fingertip.

- attempt using a pick. A pick crafts a good deal of a clearer resonance. The sound is not as much of soft than a sound from a finger pluck, and has a kind of clack to it.

- perform every note with a finger and then with a pick to put side by side the diverse sounds.

“…Carry out these diverse plucking techniques time and again on your bass guitar. The frets ought to not buzz. Plucking the strings so that they quiver up and down as an alternative of side to side creates the correct sound…” Added Xaviera Arata

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